No argument from me, I’ve said for years now that the whole Tea Party movement was nothing but a sham designed to enrich the various factions who claimed ownership of it, and a way of putting terrible unelectable candidates on the ballot who have either been beaten, quit, or ineffective.
The movement we needed is MAGA, Trumpism, aka the emerging new GOP, Donald J. Trump, prop.
(Of course the pukes at NRO would never agree with that statement).
DISAGREE....
At the inception of the Tea Party, I was one of the folks standing on the street corner beating on a pan with a big wooden spoon. We made a bunch of racket at the traffic light and got lots of thumbs up to our protest.
Obama and his evil assistant, Lois Lerner, should be run out of town on a rail.
Right. The tea party rebellion had absolutely nothing to do with the republicans being swept into office in growing numbers in nearly every local, state and national election since it sprang up. Millions of dollars in tea party expenditures for thousands of rallies and advertising campaigns all for naught. /s
Donald Trump and MAGA did more to light up America, on so much LESS, than the Leftist universe spent, during that 2016 campaign.
These PAC politicians are not only a clown operation but largely an enrichment scam. Who didn’t know this already?
Money talks and the pols then take a walk. Heck, ACORN had better voter influence results using just shoe leather than most of these “conservative” PACS.
Or...the Republicans co-opt the Tea Party and, in doing so, debase the organization until finally the last of the good people drift off and the organization dies (our personal experience).
There have been some genuinely terrible candidates (e.g., Todd 'Magic Uterus' Akin) but generally "unelectable" is RINO-speak for "conservative."
So big government, not small government?
"Something special is happening with the Tea Party Movement of today. Of course people will try to gain control of it because it is a very powerful source of energy. But the concern that it is “not controlled” and therefore “doomed” is unfounded. It needs not be nor should it be confined ... to a leader, to an organization or to a specific plan. Such activity would nullify the greatness of what it has become to date and could grow to in the future. One needn’t worry ... one only need to join the energy, shun people who attempt its control and allow plans to be spur of the moment. With a leader, there is a target, with an organization, a counter-organization, with a plan, a thwarting of the plan. But as pure ENERGY ... nothing can stop it. Think of it is energy ... join it, and be a part of this historical change-making effort."